Archives Association Collections Management

The Cinemage System is ideally suited to the archivist. The Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC) Canada, the province's premier archive, is now using ACT Software to help people hunting for everything from old family records in small community archives to wading through massive holdings of the largest archival institutions. The Archives Society of Alberta (ASA) is also using Cinemage software for the same purpose and both are extremely pleased with its performance.

The Archives Society of Alberta (ASA), representing 30 institutions from Athabasca University to Wetaskiwin City Archives, has signed a three-year contract with Advanced Cultural Technologies (ACT) to use the easy-to-use and cost effective Cinemage software system to help preserve their archival materials and create an Internet data base for easy management of on-line materials. A similar Cinemage software system was previously chosen by the Archives Association of British Columbia and currently serves its more than 165 member institutions across the Pacific province.

The ASA has one master copy of the Cinemage system operating in Calgary. Their member institutions can load up their materials to the Calgary installation and then add data, delete data, etcetera, from their local offices. They don’t each have to buy their own copy of the software to do this. The ASA represents a diverse number of archival holdings, inclusing five university archives, the city archives of Edmonton and Calgary, the Alberta Provincial Archives, and the archives of the elite Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.

While it is up to each archival institution to determine the level of public access to its material, the Cinemage system can provide the user with everything from easy search capability to access to text, audio and visual components.

The ASA contract includes a Cinemage System Software package, system installation and configuration, a media server for audio and visual capabilities, and software maintenance and support for three years.

Customer Endorsements

Here's what they had to say:

"The company, through its cutting-edge Cinemage software, has worked closely with us to customize applications to fit our network needs. They have gone out of their way to learn the particulars of archival standards and specifications."

Archives Association of British Columbia

The AABC implementation of the Cinemage system.



"We are happy with the product. Cinemage worked with us in helping us to understand the system and how to utilize its potential. We would recommend the ACT Cinemage Group to others."

Archives Society of Alberta

The ASA implementation of the Cinemage system.